Explore the fascinating intersection where quantum materials meet the complexity of everyday environments in the Cond-Mat — Mes-Hall section. This field investigates how tiny particles behave when caught between the orderly world of single atoms and the chaotic nature of bulk matter, revealing the hidden rules that govern electricity, magnetism, and heat in novel substances.

Gist.Science brings these cutting-edge discoveries to you directly from arXiv, the leading repository for physics preprints. We process every new submission in this category as soon as it appears, offering both straightforward, plain-language explanations and deep technical summaries to help researchers and curious minds alike grasp the latest breakthroughs without getting lost in dense equations.

Below are the most recent papers in this dynamic area of condensed matter physics, ready for you to explore.

Superballistic paradox in electron fluids: Evidence of tomographic transport

This paper resolves the paradox of superballistic conduction occurring at near-zero temperatures in electron fluids by demonstrating that treating electrons as fermions with tomographic dynamics—allowing only head-on collisions—rather than as classical particles, explains the phenomenon and its distinction from conventional fluid behavior.

Jorge Estrada-Álvarez, Elena Díaz, Francisco Domínguez-Adame2026-04-17🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Separating Intrinsic and Domain-Mediated Anomalous Hall Conductivity in Co3_3Sn2_2S2_2 via Contact Engineering

This paper demonstrates that contact engineering in thick Co3_3Sn2_2S2_2 crystals enables the separation of intrinsic momentum-space Berry-curvature contributions from domain-mediated and extrinsic effects in the anomalous Hall conductivity by utilizing depth-distributed current flow to isolate single-domain responses.

Eddy Divin Kenvo Songwa, Shaday Jesus Nobosse Nguemeta, Hodaya Gabber, Renana Aharonof, Dima Cheskis2026-04-17🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Long-range spatial extension of exciton states in van der Waals heterostructure

This study demonstrates that narrow photoluminescence lines in a MoSe2_2/WSe2_2 van der Waals heterostructure correspond to spatially indirect excitons localized in a moiré potential with weak disorder, exhibiting a macroscopic spatial extension of several micrometers that deviates from a random potential landscape.

Zhiwen Zhou, E. A. Szwed, W. J. Brunner, H. Henstridge, L. H. Fowler-Gerace, L. V. Butov2026-04-17🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Quantum geometric map of magnetotransport

This paper proposes a unified quantum geometric framework that maps magnetotransport phenomena—including the magnetononlinear Hall, planar Hall, and ordinary Hall effects—to specific quantum geometric quantities like the Zeeman quantum metric dipole and Berry curvature quadrupole, thereby revealing new mechanisms such as a step-like spin-induced planar Hall effect in topological insulators.

Longjun Xiang, Jinxiong Jia, Fuming Xu, Jian Wang2026-04-17🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Long-range spin-polarized Josephson effect in ballistic S/F/S junctions with precessing magnetization

This paper presents a theory for ballistic S/F/S junctions with precessing magnetization, demonstrating that the resulting non-equilibrium distribution of Andreev bound states generates long-range equal-spin superconducting correlations and a non-sinusoidal Josephson current, enabling a fully polarized half-metal junction to switch from an insulating "off" state to a conducting "on" state.

E. S. Andriyakhina, M. Mansouri, M. Breitkreiz, P. W. Brouwer2026-04-17🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Josephson phase shift and diode effect due to the inverse spin Hall effect

This paper theoretically demonstrates that a superconductor-normal metal-superconductor junction with inversion-symmetric spin-orbit coupling can exhibit a Josephson phase shift and a superconducting diode effect via the inverse spin Hall effect induced by a spatially inhomogeneous magnetic field, without requiring broken structural inversion symmetry.

Gen Tatara, Yositake Takane, Aurelien Manchon2026-04-17🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall